“I have no more time for sparing feelings. Some belief systems are stupid beyond imagining and need to be shut out because all of our futures depend on it.”

We only disagree on one word – where you say some, I say all. I would say the vast majority of all faithful are good people, and I wish them nothing but happiness. But I no longer really feel the need to respect any type of invented belief system, nor feel the need to apologize if that hurts the feelings of a “believer.”

–WKW

Comment by William K. Wolfrum — 8/5/2006 @ 10:37 am

I hear you and yes. No. It’s true. It’s not true… Sometimes. maybe.

Every relative I have on my mother’s side is a Jehova’s Witness. So I’ll make no apology when I say that is a religion of idiots. Scientologists are likely to be about as dumb. I thought Zoroastrians died off over 2000 years ago, but maybe I’m wrong. But anyone looking objectively cannot make a blanket statement about every belief system. Most Catholics, Protastants, Islamists, Hindus, etc., are actually pretty reasonable people. They are much like most atheists in that regard.

Yes. The guy with a bent against Jews can say what i said about rapture fetishists about Jews, but he’s wrong. Opinions and views are not equal. We are not all equal. Quite frankly, some of us just aren’t smart enough to sit at the big table, and that is just the way it is, and if people are sad at the small table, I’m sorry, but you’ll sit there until you are smart enough to move up here with us, which you’ll probably never be, but that’s just too damn bad.

I have no more time for sparing feelings. Some belief systems are stupid beyond imagining and need to be shut out because all of our futures depend on it. It isn’t just evolution vs. creationism or stem cell research, which are pretty important. It’s life and death. As I type, missiles are being exchanged between Hezbola and Isreal, gunfire between the United States and extremists Muslims in Iraq. Fred White is marching around the funerals of American servicemen with gay bashing signs. And if I am to believe certain sources, there are God Squad believers in our own government who seem to want to hasten armegeddon to fulfil rapture fantasies. The imaginary gods of the world are making innocent people die.

These nuts need to be marginalized and through discourse, not violence, erradicated. They are threatening my children’s very future. I won’t say we need to discard the idea of being politically correct because I believe the terminology “politically correct” is just a BS term that the right uses against the left like a Klansmen uses a racial slur against blacks. But I do not want a big tent. We don’t need everyone to come together. We need serious minds to come together and if you aren’t in the tent, well, too bad. Pray on your own time, there are real issues that need addressed and these kooks have proven that they just don’t have the cranial muscle to help get the job done.

And by the way… If anyone out there who fits the rapture nut mold doesn’t like being called stupid, then I suggest they stop being stupid.

I am told again and again to be respectful of the differences between all of us and bla bla bla…

But these people are loons. Crazy. Cuckoo for CocoPuffs. Nutbags. Insane in the membrane. Looped. Damaged. Whacked out on Jesus juice. Freaks. Several sandwiches short of a picnic. Fred Rogers and Charlie Manson all rolled into one. Drunk on the Kool-Aid. Not all there. Struck by the glaze. Queer as three dollar bills. Should I go on?
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–WKW

I am told again and again to be respectful of the differences between all of us and bla bla bla…

But these people are loons. Crazy. Cuckoo for CocoPuffs. Nutbags. Insane in the membrane. Looped. Damaged. Whacked out on Jesus juice. Freaks. Several sandwiches short of a picnic. Fred Rogers and Charlie Manson all rolled into one. Drunk on the Kool-Aid. Not all there. Struck by the glaze. Queer as three dollar bills. Should I go on?

This world is full of political ideologies, religions, dogmas, etc… But if you want to be taken seriously, you gotta be serious. Reading these articles are like reading the prose of little children with unusually good grammar.

I’m sorry… But I have to reserve the limited amount of respect I have to share for people who at least have semi-valid worldviews. I mean, I’d rather spend a week in a cabin with James Hill than to take an hour over lunch to hang with these Bible buddies.

Bingo! John, I believe that you have hit on a wonderful way to screw with those rapture folks, for fun and money.

All we have to do is set up our own pro-rapture website. A website for the ‘true’ believers. People who understand that God knows not only what they say, God knows that which is in their minds and hearts.

When Jesus returns, he isn’t going to waste his time rapturing the non-believers, or those that can’t make up their own mind. Jesus is coming to save the ‘True Believers’ the ones that know deep down in their hearts what the bible promises us. The signs are set, the day of judgment is upon us, the rapture is emanate. In fact, many people believe that the rapture has already started. Haven’t you noticed the recent increase in missing people in the news?

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11 If the end of times is here… why pre-order??? you will be dead before you get it

12 So you’re saying I should put more faith in the Vista release schedule than the Rapture index? They both have about the same rate of change.

Thank You, for the laughs.

Kiloraptures (kR) = LOL

Of course, these are also the people that feel the earth is only 6k yrs old, and that man walked with Dinosaurs…. And the earth revolves around the sun…. and is flat….and that there is an invisible friend that actually cares about such nothings…..